Emily’s Quest

Cover art for Emily’s Quest, published by McClelland and Stewart (Canada) and Frederick A. Stokes (USA) in 1927.

Emily’s Quest is L.M. Montgomery’s sixteenth book, first published in September 1927 by McClelland and Stewart (Toronto) and the Frederick A. Stokes Company (New York). It is the third of three books to feature Montgomery’s protagonist Emily Byrd Starr, preceded by Emily of New Moon (1923) and Emily Climbs (1925). Although she began work on this novel shortly after completing Emily Climbs, she was sufficiently blocked in her creative process that she shelved the project temporarily and published The Blue Castle (1926) next. Her subsequent book was Magic for Marigold (1929).